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    William Curtis Bok (September 7, 1897 – May 22, 1962) was a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice, philanthropist and writer. Heir to an enormous publishing...
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  • Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator, and former president of Harvard University. Bok was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania...
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    William Curtis Bok and Cary William Bok. Her husband retired from the magazine in 1919, and they spent their winters in Florida, where they built the Bok Tower...
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    political corruption in Philadelphia. The institute's founder, Mary Louise Curtis Bok, a philanthropist, administrator, and major proponent of the Settlement...
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    succeeded by Edward William Bok. Several years later Bok married Mary Louise Curtis in 1896, becoming the Curtises' son-in-law. Bok retired from the magazine...
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    The Curtis Arboretum is a 45-acre (18 ha) arboretum in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. The arboretum was founded by Mary Louise Curtis Bok in honor of her father...
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    Mary Louise Bok founded the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, which she dedicated to her father, Cyrus Curtis, and in 1927, the Boks embarked upon...
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    fee is charged. Edward William Bok, editor of the magazine The Ladies Home Journal, and his wife, Mary Louise Curtis Bok, spent the winter of 1921 in Florida...
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  • world. Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist, only child of Cyrus H. K. Curtis, a wealthy magazine publisher and founder of the Curtis Publishing Company,...
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  • Martha E. Sewall Curtis (1858–1915), American suffragist, writer Mary C. Curtis (born 1953), American journalist Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist (1876–1970)...
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  • cartoonist Christian Bök (born 1966), Canadian experimental poet Curtis Bok (1897–1962), Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice Derek Bok (born 1930), American...
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  • Pennsylvania jurist Curtis Bok and Margaret Plummer Bok. She served as associate professor of philosophy at Pomona College from 1997 to 2000. Bok was also a Laurance...
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    well-to-do clientele. Around the turn of the century families such as Curtis, Bok, Keep, Gribbel, Dillingham and Borland not only built estates but their...
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    Efrem Zimbalist (category Curtis family)
    he married the Curtis Institute of Music's founder, Mary Louise Curtis Bok, daughter of publisher Cyrus Curtis and Louisa Knapp Curtis, and 14 years his...
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    music instruction of the Curtis Institute. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, central to founding both Bay Chamber Concerts and the Curtis Institute, was one of the...
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  • American filmmaker, son of Andrew Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist (1876–1970), founder of the Curtis Institute of Music, married to Efrem Michelle Zimbalist...
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  • name from the Pennsylvania estate of Margaret Adams Plummer, wife of Curtis Bok, both the diamond's original owners. At the time, the Deepdene weighed...
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    first time. The Curtis Institute of Music on Rittenhouse Square, founded in 1924 by Curtis Publishing Company heiress Mary Louise Curtis Bok, has trained...
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    of Medicine; surgeon-in-chief, Ben Taub General Hospital, Texas Derek Curtis Bok, dean, Harvard Law School Kingman Brewster, Jr., president, Yale University...
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    1916 1936 5 James M. Landis 1937 1946 6 Erwin Griswold 1946 1967 7 Derek Curtis Bok 1968 1971 8 Albert Martin Sacks 1971 1981 9 James Vorenberg 1981 1989...
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    Samuel Barber (category Curtis Institute of Music alumni)
    became a favorite of the conservatory's founder, Mary Louise Curtis Bok. It was through Mrs. Bok that Barber was introduced to his lifelong publishers, the...
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  • through the generosity of Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist, daughter of Cyrus H.K. Curtis and founder of The Curtis Institute of Music. In the later 1980s...
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    Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (category Curtis family)
    Davenport (1903–1996). His stepmother was Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist, the founder of the Curtis Institute of Music. Both parents converted to Anglican...
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  • Curtis turned over the editorship to Edward Bok in 1889 but she continued to author a column and provide oversight. She was married to Cyrus Curtis,...
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  • heir of Borden fortune Cleve Benedict, 1953 – West Virginian Congressman Curtis Bok, 1915 – Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Hans Brase, 2012 – German Basketball...
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    Orchestra, he was largely responsible for convincing Mary Louise Curtis Bok to set up the Curtis Institute of Music (13 October 1924) in Philadelphia. He helped...
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  • president of the New College of Florida Derek Curtis Bok, president of Harvard University Sissela Bok, former professor of philosophy at Brandeis University...
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    Mary Louise Curtis Bok, later the founder of the Curtis Institute of Music. Assured by von Sternberg of Antheil's genius and good character, Bok gave him...
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    Francis Beverly Biddle James Biddle Livingston L. Biddle Jr. Moncure Biddle Curtis Bok George Henry Boker Adolph E. Borie George Cadwalader John Cadwalader Jr...
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  • and furnishings he progressed to interiors, the most famous being the Curtis Bok House (1935–37). Though the house was demolished in 1989, Esherick’s work...
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